William Rohe
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Jeez, that’s going to be quite the list for me……
Right out of bed I usually take the following:
Greens shake with taurine, apple cider vinegar, and lemon juice
-Cissus
-ProjectAD Liver Plus
-ProjectAD Heart Plus
-Mix of GDA supplements: chromium, berberine, Gymnema silvestreWith my first meal:
-Multi vitamin
-Curcumin
-Vitamin D
-Fish oil
-ProjectAD Ravenous – helps with digestionOn rest days I’ll toss in creatine in the morning with HMB
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It’s all about preference Paul. I ran a split like that a year ago and enjoyed it. After 4ish months, it ran its course and I moved onto another split. I’m currently doing Push/Pull/Legs. If it’s something you think you’ll enjoy doing, go for it. One specific split won’t yield better results than others as long as it’s programmed right for you to recover and not burn yourself out.
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Please remember for a future video idea about your experience bulking up to 290lbs the first time and then going back up to 300lbs. Maybe briefly touch on the different subjects of gear, diet, and training during those times. What your mindset was on a day to day basis and the different mind games tend to come with getting that big and uncomfortable.
Loved the IG pic of you judging – back making the chair look tiny lol
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What do you mean by morning rituals? Are you talking from a supplementation stand point? Outside of that, it’s say most people will either wake up and get ready for work or wake up and get ready for a morning workout.
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Would you ever consider hiring Stefan as a coach?
Also, are you still working with Dr. Stevenson right now or doing your prep solo? I’ve been finding and watching/listening to all the material I can with Scott in. Cannot believe it wasn’t until just a couple months ago I found out about him after 7ish years of being a meathead and researching.
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Those small increments would be fine after you initially bump up calories. Your first bump up right after the cut ends can be adding in 75-100g carbs right off the bat so you get some energy for workouts and some calories for your body to recover. Plenty of prep coaches have mentioned that’s pretty basic on the initial increase.
Yes, you’ll notice a bit of a jump in weight at first because your body will hold onto more water with the increase in food consumption. That’s normal. But after the first 2-3 weeks you shouldn’t notice any jumping in the scale. If you do notice it still is increasing fast, then pull back a little on the calories. Remember, with the added carbs, you should be able to get more out of your lifting sessions now. Heavier weight, more reps. So your lifting sessions may start burning more calories than they were before. Your metabolism will also get a bit of a kick. These things are perfectly normal and you just need to keep an eye on the mirror and go slow. Don’t worry too much about losing conditioning. Your body needs to add some bodyfat back on to operate normally again.
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What time are you guys dosing your MK677? I’ve heard the common problem of major water retention. Not sure if it makes a difference but my old prep coach recommended dosing before bed. I have some MK677 I took for a week and a half and had to stop because of the water retention – it was during a cut so I didn’t want it. I plan to throw it back in sometime during this bulk to help with sleep and recovery. I’m sure water weight will be bad again but I decided I’d tough it out and wear hoodies. If it has any properties similar to GH and helps with growth and strength, it’s worth it while bulking.
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Redcon1 has a lot of quality and good products. They are doing the same thing all other companies are doing with PH’s as far as the dosage. Just not reasonable and cost effective if you want to run 3-4 times the original dose for 4-8 weeks. SARMs would be a better alternative imo if you don’t want to opt for real gear. Again, will not give the same results of real gear and a lot of shady companies are in the sarms market.
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If you’re training with a DC approach or one similar to JP’s, then you do a heavier set usually followed by a backed off set of a bit lower weight and increased reps. Multiple rep ranges for side laterals and going to very high reps on the last back off set using rest pause or drop sets are quite important for shoulder growth.
But you mentioned you’re coming off a cut. Because you weren’t progressivly eating or pushing up your bodyweight, that’s why you wouldn’t notice a difference in shoulder size during your cut. Now that you’re increasing calories, making sure you’re increasing calories at a slow rate and continue making progress in weight/reps on your shoulder exercises will ensure you add muscle. But rememeber, Jordan says to see significant enough progress, you need to up your bodyweight. When you’re getting to 20-30lbs above your cutting weight, you should notice a difference. If your lifts aren’t progressing, that’s when you know you’ll need to rest more or eat more. In time, those shoulders should grow as long as you’re progressively overloading and progressively eating.
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Don’t recommend wasting your money. I did quite a bit of reading on them and other PH’s on the market and they just aren’t worth it anymore. Even the “effective” ones from before the PH ban were very toxic to the body. If you’re considering crossing that line from being natural to enhanced, the real stuff is likely the safest route you can go. If you wanted to see even a little bit of enhancement from the Redcon1 or even any other PH’s on the market right now, you’d triple or quadruple the dose to hit effective amounts for 1-andro/4-andro to be effective in any way and even so, it would be significantly less than the real stuff.
Save your money for food or actual gear
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What does your shoulder training look like currently? What exercises, sets, and rep ranges are you doing?
Also, what does your diet look like? Are you cutting or bulking?
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Push Pull Legs is a very solid routine and has been my personal favorite over my years of training. Doing it with JP’s style of lifting/DC training works out quite well for recovery. 5 times a week is perfect and you’d be able to separate your split like the following:
Pull/Push/Rest/Legs/Rest/Pull/Push/Rest/Legs/Rest – repeat
Would recommend also having 2-3 different variations of the workout. So during one pull session you’d do deadlifts. The other pull session you’d do bent over barbell rows. Jordan explains this wekk in the articles and videos on the site for setting up your training program. -
You can always try an appetite stimulater like ProjectAD Ravenous. It helps with digestion and getting your appetite rolling.
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Count me in for a t-shirt and hoodie when you have them in stock 🙂
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No, I don’t have rep range goals for each workout. My first working set and heaviest I have open to quite a wide range like 5-10(mix of strength and hypertrophic range). If I hit lets say 5-7 reps last week, then I know I should give it another week at this weight. UNLESS I feel so good during my warmup sets that I feel I can increase weight and hit 6+ reps. Basically make the most of the weight you’re at before increasing weight. The backoff set is always 10 or more reps. I think to a point you need to instinctively train and that’s how I see it. If you haven’t done this style of training before(DC or how JP trains), then it might be best to stick with set ranges until you get a better reading of your body and to know how and when to increase weight on your lifts.